Top Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager Alternatives and Competitors
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Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.
Common Features
Network Performance Management | Traffic Monitoring | Network Mapping | Network Configuration Management | Network Environment Monitoring | Network Analytics | Network Quality of Service | Network Reporting | Network Compliance Management | Operational Dashboard
7.8
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+84
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147
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager
Compare how Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

SolarWinds
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
8.2
Composite
Score
+85
Emotional
Footprint
108
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Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is:
More Efficient
Better at Integrating
Easier to Implement
More Respectful
Easier to Use
Better at Training
SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is powerful and affordable network monitoring software that enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems & outages.
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Datadog
Datadog
8.2
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
49
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Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, Datadog is:
More Inspiring
Easier to Implement
More Caring
More Respectful
Easier to Customize
More Efficient
Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications that brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

Auvik
Auvik
8.1
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
26
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, Auvik is:
More Inspiring
More Caring
More Transparent
Easier to Customize
More Respectful
More Reliable
Auvik’s cloud-based network management software automates and simplifies complex and time-consuming network tasks through real-time network mapping, alerting, configuration backups, network traffic analysis, and more.

Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Riverbed Network Performance Management
8.0
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
33
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, Riverbed Network Performance Management is:
More Reliable
More Efficient
More Respectful
More Inspiring
Easier to Customize
Worse at Integrating
Riverbed Network Performance Management makes it easy to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze what’s happening across your hybrid network environment. With end-to-end visibility and actionable insights, you can quickly and proactively resolve any network-based performance issues.
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Progress Software
Progress WhatsUp Gold
8.0
Composite
Score
+85
Emotional
Footprint
143
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Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, Progress WhatsUp Gold is:
Better at Support
More Reliable
More Respectful
More Efficient
More Transparent
More Inspiring
Avoid downtime with a network monitoring solution that covers you from the network edge to the cloud. See developing issues before users report them. Troubleshoot faster from an interactive topology map that shows connectivity and dependencies.

LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor Platform
7.9
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
60
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, LogicMonitor Platform is:
More Efficient
Better at Support
More Respectful
More Inspiring
More Caring
Better at Training
Get monitoring up and running quickly with LogicMonitor’s automated SaaS-based platform.
Paessler
Paessler PRTG
7.8
Composite
Score
+88
Emotional
Footprint
67
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, Paessler PRTG is:
Easier to Customize
More Efficient
More Reliable
More Inspiring
More Caring
Less Innovative
Monitor all systems, devices, traffic and applications of your IT infrastructure. Everything you need is contained in PRTG, no additional downloads are required.

Zoho
ManageEngine Site24x7
7.6
Composite
Score
+88
Emotional
Footprint
40
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, ManageEngine Site24x7 is:
More Respectful
More Innovative
More Inspiring
More Efficient
More Reliable
Easier to Implement
Performance Monitoring Solution for DevOps and IT Operations.

ManageEngine
ManageEngine OpManager
7.5
Composite
Score
+93
Emotional
Footprint
72
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, ManageEngine OpManager is:
More Efficient
More Inspiring
More Transparent
More Respectful
More Innovative
More Reliable
Introducing OpManager, the world's first truly integrated network management software for faster and smarter network management. It's out-of-the-box offers network monitoring, physical and virtual server monitoring, flow-based bandwidth analysis, firewall log analysis and archiving, configuration and change management, and IP address and switch port management, thereby providing all the visibility and control that you need over your network.

OpenText Corporation
Opentext Network Operations Management
7.0
Composite
Score
+82
Emotional
Footprint
40
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, Opentext Network Operations Management is:
Better at Support
More Inspiring
Easier to Use
More Transparent
Less Caring
Less Reliable
OpenText Network Operations Management is comprehensive, enterprise-ready network management software. With its integrated monitoring, configuration, and compliance on a unified platform, you gain unparalleled network control.

Centreon
Centreon Platform
6.8
Composite
Score
+80
Emotional
Footprint
32
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, Centreon Platform is:
More Respectful
Less Innovative
Worse at Integrating
Less Transparent
Worse at Training
Worse at Support
Centreon’s AIOps-ready IT monitoring platform provides holistic visibility to complex IT workflows from Cloud-to-Edge. Centreon monitors the complete IT Infrastructure from Cloud-to-Edge for a clear and comprehensive view. Centreon drives business performance excellence, aligning IT operations with business objectives through intuitive monitoring.

Broadcom
DX NetOps
6.6
Composite
Score
+75
Emotional
Footprint
61
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager, DX NetOps is:
Less Innovative
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Harder to Customize
Less Transparent
Worse at Training
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